Luigi is a hero.
See how easy that is when you aren’t given the table scraps of the rich?
You are now banned from .world for inciting violence.
Dunno why. I’m just talking about the guy who fights ghouls who live in mansions.
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Man, it’s getting so hard to talk about video games, these days… 😉
That hasn’t happened in a long time.
It should never have happened at all.
So you think they will get sued by Nintendo?
Came to the comments to find this question lol
Fucking scary shit. Now, it is simply “liking” content Reddit doesn’t like. Soon, it will be upvoting things that the government doesn’t want you to see, or paints them in a bad light.
paints them in a bad light.
So, like… facts?
Just like facts.
A Reddit spokesperson, who requested that The Verge not use their name due to the sensitive subject matter
What the fuck is this? We’re granting corporate spokespeople anonymity now?
Actually, yeah. Otherwise, you fuck up whistleblowing. They could be in the position, realize what’s happening is wrong, be documenting it, trying to get out, etc…
Are you seriously suggesting there is no way to grant whistleblowers anonymity without granting it to corporate spokespeople providing statements on behalf of the company? You’re a fucking idiot
Uhh, isn’t that kinda against the whole point of being a spokesperson in the first place? To put a name and a face behind a message?
Dunno why The Verge plays along.
Because The Verge wants them to return their calls. It’s not like it matters. Spokespeople aren’t the ones making decisions. It’s the C-suits, which is publicly available.
You give it to whoever asks for it or you never get another source again.
This isn’t a “source”. This is a corporate spokesperson
Was this corporate spokesperson authorized to talk to this outlet about this topic? Just because they’re a spokesperson doesn’t mean they can talk freely.
Yes, that’s what a spokesperson is. Did you read the article? If it was a leak that would have been stated.
In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or knowledge of other record or document that gives timely information. Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as “news sources”. Examples of sources include official records, publications or broadcasts, officials in government or business, organizations or corporations, witnesses of crime, accidents or other events, and people involved with or affected by a news event or issue.
Even though it’s a corporate spokesperson, they wouldn’t have requested anonymity if they were allowed to talk about it…
Untrue. Reddit employees doing what their bosses tell them to are justifiably afraid of the blowback. Reminds me of the directive to not wear Reddit branding with the 3rd party app thing These folks don’t want targets on their back.
…its both
That’s not what they do according to their own ethics statement
I’m not reading that. What are you saying?
Take the link and scroll down to the section titled “ON BACKGROUND”
I still don’t get it. Nothing there says a spokesperson is not a source. Which is good because saying such a thing would make absolutely no sense.
A corporate spokesperson spoke to them “on background”. A “corporate communications professional speaking to [them] in [their] official capacity“ has the option detailed in that section to request anonymity while being quoted.
There must have been an agreement between The Verge and the corporate representative to speak without being identified beyond their affiliation with the company, as described In the section titled “on background”.
Once again, none of this contradicts what I said.
The anti evil operations team has done this in the past.
What the fuck is “the anti evil operations team”? That sounds like corpospeak for a team that does deeply evil shit
fucking bowser at it again.
Linguine
So, are subs like /r/Mario and /r/Nintendo going to be banned for “encouraging violence”?
No, the mods will just get constant streams of false positive flags they have to clear.
Hey look, the cancer is dying of itself…
This is the time for Nintendo to whip out a lawsuit
I was going to say, “For what?” But then I remember that Nintendo just blasts lawsuits at anyone who remotely mentions something related to one of their IPs.
I’m surprised they haven’t sued Italy over their name since that is where Mario is from.
They recently sued a tiny convenience store in Costa Rica because it was called “Super Mario”, because in Costa Rica, any moderately large store is a “Super”, and the owner happened to be named “Mario” so… You can figure it out.
Anyways, Nintendo lost that lawsuit
Get Brianthompson’d, Reddit.
Luigi spez
Reddit is rich too though
Spez is a loser with only millions, compared to his billionaire tech bros. This is the main reason he started ruining reddit in the past years, he is frustrated and wants to also become a billionaire like his buddies
Hmmm yeah, he’s “only” worth about $85M, so low/mid-upper class
In their minds, that’s literally it. They compare themselves to billionaires. Millionaires are just temporarily embarassed billionaires.
Im so glad im no longer on there
People saying Luigi is a hero but then defend the Democrats. Truly astonishing. Luigi’s actions are a call to systemic revolution. He is a god damn hero, and will probably go down as a martyr if the federal government gets their way.
Democrats aren’t perfect but we’d be in 92% better shape with one in the Whitehouse right now.
We? Who is we? The working class would still be exploited. We’d just have a President who is “nicer” about it. We need a revolution, because reform is damn near impossible now.
He is not a hero, but he is the first crack in the floodgates. Whoever he is, he is a first sign of people losing temper. And his ongoing defence in court is a vehicle to make important problems relevant. Not everyone can stand behind shooting a CEO, but his act introduced the long-silenced topic that is a common ground with MAGA people too, and that’s why corpo fuckers want to put it down.
Luigi didn’t shoot a ceo.
“All I said was ‘that piece of halibut was good enough for luigi’”
“BLASPHEMY”
“Luigi, luigi, luigi”
